I know I’m usually posting drawings… but I tried my hand at writing for once. Just a one shot I wrote for WhiteRose week! I only got to do one day, but it was the only prompt I could think of something for.
It’s an AU. Timeline is different from the original show, so there are some differences. There’s also mention of some character deaths and some angst!
Song is Shake it out by Florence + The Machine if anyone hasn’t heard it. I imagined tempo and acoustic similar to the Glee rendition of the song. Naya Rivera’s voice haunts me in the first verse. Highly suggest this version, don’t be snobs cuz it’s “Glee” lol. Enjoy. I may have a part 2 or 3 planned.
The crowd’s booing echoes long after the man trudges off stage. They’re not being fair. She thinks he wasn’t horrible. Maybe not on par with the other talent before him, but not horrid. Drinks flow steadily from behind the bar. Verbal jeers rising as inhibitions drop. Fate would have been kinder to showcase him first, before the crowd became bold with alcohol filled bellies.
“Poor guy.” Ever the empathetic one, Ruby is quick to applaud, though she’s the only one.
“Don’t encourage that.” Their other friend speaks up from her right. “He was horrible. I saw no breath control, and he was so -pitchy.”
“Not everyone can be classically trained like you!” Ruby shoots back. “Who could control breaths while crying. I swear there were tears in his eyes as he ducked behind the curtain.”
Their bickering continues, muffled now by the shouts for the next performer to take the stage. The set is early. They don’t care that they chased the last one off ten minutes early.
Servers hurry to replace empty glasses; tributes to placate the ravenous horde, but their hunger is for entertainment not drink. Yang wonders if their demands now turn for more blood. The one constant ringing true throughout history - men are never sated. Always they want more, and more. Having a taste of viciousness, would anything curb that appetite now?
She spares what little empathy she can for the next performer, wishing it into the universe in hopes to protect them, even but a bit, from what’s to come. Ruby worries for the wrong person, his embarrassment although tragic is now over.
“Here we are now, entertain us.” It rings over and over, so much so Yang can’t tell which are the true roughened lyrics and which are the reverberations from the rafters.
A girl rushes from side-stage, skidding to a halt a few paces in. It’s obvious from her deer-in-the-headlights look that she’s been rushed, pushed up there, like a lamb to slaughter. A simple acoustic guitar hangs from her white-knuckled left fist. She wears simple clothing, no fancy dress or designer jeans, no blazers or grunge band shirts hang off her frame. There’s nothing to indicate this girl’s trying to make an impression. Nothing saying she wants to be seen. The opposite in fact. She wears simple black jeans, blue converse and a long sleeved grey shirt. No gaudy jewelry or bold make-up marr her skin to grab the audience’s attention. Her hair is pulled back in a simple bun at the back of her head. Fingers tremble as they slide across her temple, tucking a wayward strand of ebony behind her left ear. Higher up, two points flatten as she takes the half a dozen strides to collapse on the stool awaiting her at center stage.
ruby songs: the world sucks sometimes! but!!! be positive! be kind! be great!!! never stop learning and growing!!! move forward!!!!!!!!!!!
weiss songs: why,,,,,am i like this,,,,,,what did i do,,,,to deserve this,,,,,,, *sudden guitar riff* FUCK YOU DAD I’M GONNA PUNCH YOUR JAW INTO PIECES AND PISS ON YOUR GRAVE FEAR ME AAAAAAAAAAAAA
blake songs: be gay do crimes >:3c
yang songs: I’m At My Limit I Can’t Fucking Take This Anymore I’m About To Go Ape Shit I Will Beat You To Death Don’t Test Me
I got the urge to draw Yang dressed as Cloud after I saw Mojojoj’s art of Blake dressed as Tifa. I know it makes more sense for it to be reversed since Yang has more similarities with Tifa (and arguably Blake with Cloud), but imagine this is for that “couples cosplay” aesthetic.
